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Jun
2
Surfboard Sculpting
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The one part of the Surfer Girl sculpture I did not think of was the girl’s surfboard. I had seen little trinket surfboard all along the Venice boardwalk and thought I would buy one of those to use as a prop. But when it came up to figuring the size of the board, finding [...]
May
23
Gloomy May Day
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During the extremely gloomy May day which I had the day off I sent off and really blocked out the rest of the Surfer girl and came up with dimensions for the surf board. After finding the body of the sculpture rather loss because I did not go with the waist side support. I felt [...]
May
17
On Thursday May 15th I stopped off at Home Depot to pick up supplies to the base of the new sculpture project “Surfer Girl“. A block of wood, sandpaper, black paint, paint brushes, and Denatured Alcohol. Friday I sanded down the wood and painted it black, wired up the armature. Then today I attached the [...]
Apr
18
Took photos of Margeau Bull today in reference of the Pussycat Surfer Girl picture on the wall at the bar Nikki’s. Which will be my next sculpture project.
Mar
19
Final Sculpture Class
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The tenth and final class with John Brown was more of a one on one with all the students. It was really fun to walk into class today and see most of the sculptures coming together and becoming more like art. When John got around to me, the excitement I had from all the students checking [...]
Mar
12
Tertiary Form
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In the ninth class with John Brown, which was suppose to be about creating tertiary form to your sculptures – and he did cover that topic and showed use how to use some tools. Including part of a dog brush how to create wrinkles, skin texture, pores, and veins. But the most enjoyable part of [...]
Mar
9
Solvent Finish
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The eighth class with John Brown dealt with using solvents on the clay. His lecture went over three, odorless Turpenoid, Rubbing Alcohol and water. Obviously the Turpenoid cuts into the clay more, then the Alcohol which comes in percentages. Then water is great for polishing the clay. He demonstrated using a brush to [...]
Mar
4
Heads Up
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On the seventh class with John Brown, he went over creating the head. Which is quite complex, though of course he made it look easy. Here our some personal notes for me for any future sculptures I do. Create skull shape noting how lower the jaw is to the back of the skull. That the [...]
Feb
20
Give Him a Hand
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The sixth class of John Brown’s dealt with ‘hands’. How they are the same as modeling any other part of the body, but you do need to pay attention to the multitude of curves the hands have. After that he pulled out fellow classmate Chris’ sculpture out to do a demo to remind us not [...]
Feb
17
a Model Weekend
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Sculpting and modeling clay all weekend. It looked all wrong and ended up rearranging the tiger’s head and all four legs, still having a harder time making it ‘look’ exactly like a tiger.
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